Ceremony - Cult

By the time Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy, now the only permanent members of The Cult came to release 1991's album ceremony, they had travelled a long and evolved musical pathway. From the punk roots of The Southern Death Cult, the band first came to wider attention in the early eighties, with the album Dreamtime, a mix of gothic spirituality and rock beats. Their reputation grew with the release of an album of dark and bluesy psychedelic sounds and the band were probably happy in the assumption that they had arrived. What followed came not only as a departure but also as a shock for many of the die-hard fans. Relocating to America with a brief of "making an album ...  Read the complete review